Heads up for login managers

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:27:46PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Keep in mind the way of using an environment variable is all
> implementation details right now and abstracted by ConsoleKit at this
> point. E.g. if we could securely tag a process with a cookie and ensure
> that it's inherited by child processes and said child processes cannot
> change it we're good. And then we can use this mechanism instead of the
> rather ugly way of using environment variables. Unfortunately, to my
> knowledge at least, the Linux kernel don't yet support something like
> this.


Wouldn't the kernel keyring mechanism work? (See keys.txt in the kernel
docs.) Or perhaps I'm not understanding something.

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